Melissa Di Donato, CEO of Kyriba | Extraordinary Life Stories

She’s not just breaking glass ceilings, she’s redesigning the entire boardroom blueprint.If you want to see what real leadership looks like in action… look no further than Melissa Di Donato.I’ve enjoyed spending quality time with Melissa prior to filming and it’s clear she’s a woman on a mission - not just smashing ceilings, she’s building pathways. To ensure future boardrooms don’t just include women - but women who look like her.Women who lead with integrity, courage, and presence in a space still dominated by men.Melissa has made it her mission to ensure the next generation of boardrooms reflect the world we actually live in. And she’s doing it by example:First woman to lead a multi‑billion‑euro tech IPO in GermanyFormer CEO of SUSE where she made history as the first woman to take a company public on the Frankfurt Stock ExchangeCurrent Chair & CEO of KyribaSupervisory Board Member at Porsche AGNon-Executive Director at J.P. Morgan EuropeCo-founder of Inner Wings empowering girls in STEMMelissa is bold, brilliant, and unapologetically driven to create space for others to rise. This hits personally for me - as a father to 2 teenage daughters, Role models like Melissa lead the way in self belief and confidence to follow their dreams and passion.This episode is proudly sponsored by IFS.ai